Wednesday, September 30, 2009

At the May mouthoff the theme was working mothers. A kind of celebration of May Day and Mother's Day which fall in the same month. As I was in the middle of an awful time I did not have a story (- or maybe too many stories?) to tell about my own mother so riffed on the topic. I apologize that this is not so much a story as a rant.

Thanks to Doria Hughes for encouraging me and taping, editing and posting the mouthoffs for a year.

Some video from my show at Bull Feeny's Second part of the story of Mary Read - part one is here: http://massmouth.ning.com/video/mary-read-at-seanachie-nights more to come... Thanks all who came out to Bull Feeny's to hear my stories from the life and times of Mary Read. What a fabulous audience you were and special thanks to Lynne Cullen for the venue, invite and hospitality. You mooses is great. X her mark (Mary...)MUSIC: Mary Black - "Though I Live Not Where I Love"

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"Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves. Art is neither a state of the soul (in the sense of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of inspiration) nor a state of man (in the sense of a profession or social function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light." --Jerzy Grotowski